HEBRON, January 16, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Thursday assaulted a Palestinian human rights activist in the southern occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to the activist herself.

Areej Jabari told WAFA correspondent that Israeli occupation forces hit her with rifle butts in her back while she was using her video camera to document and gather footage of an attack by the occupation forces against several youths at a checkpoint in the H2 area, causing her to sustain bruises.

Jabari was rushed by Palestinian Red Crescent Society medics to a nearby hospital.

WAFA correspondent pointed out that the assault against Jabari was committed as part of the occupation authorities’ policy to conceal the crimes committed by their armed forces against the Palestinian people in the sealed-off areas of Hebron and prevent the documentation of such crimes.

Located around Shuhada Street and the Ibrahimi Mosque and considered the most fortified by checkpoints and guard posts, the H2 area is home to 39,000 Palestinians and roughly 900  Israeli colonists considered some of the most notoriously aggressive in the occupied West Bank.

For more than five months ago, the occupation forces have been completely isolating most of the 11 Palestinian neighborhoods within H2 - comprising about 750 families – from the rest of Hebron, blocking the entries to these neighborhoods with cages, checkpoints, concrete blast walls, and rolls of razor wire.

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